Vul⋅can
[vuhl-kuh
n] 
| 1. | the ancient Roman god of fire and metalworking, identified with the Greek Hephaestus. |
| 2. | Military. a six-barrel, 20mm U.S. Army antiaircraft gun system mounted on an armored personnel carrier and first deployed in 1968. |
| 3. | Astronomy. a hypothetical planet nearest the sun whose existence was erroneously postulated to account for perturbations in Mercury's orbit. |
1505–15; < L Vulcānus
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| Spanish: | volcán, | German: | der Vulkan, | Japanese: | 火山 |
| Vul·can
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n. Roman Mythology The god of fire and metalworking. [Latin Volcānus, Vulcānus.] |
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Vulcan
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| vulcan | |
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| (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus |
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Vulcan
The Roman and Greek god of fire and metalworking; the blacksmith of the gods. He suffered bodily deformities and lameness. According to some stories, he was married to Venus, the goddess of love and beauty; in other stories, he was married to one of the three Graces. Vulcan was a son of Jupiter.
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VULCAN
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["VULCAN - A String Handling Language with Dynamic Storage Control", E.P. Storm et al, Proc FJCC 37, AFIPS, Fall 1970].
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["Vulcan: Logical Concurrent Objects", K. Kahn et al in Research Directions in Object- Oriented Programming, A.B. Shriver et al eds, MIT Press 1987].
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Vulcan
Vul"can\, n. [L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. ulk[=a] a firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano.] (Rom. Myth.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Heph[ae]stus.Cite This Source
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